Word: rhegium
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...Roman galleys standing out from Syracusae (TIME, Ides of Maius, 211 B.C.). Bomilcar said the wind had been against him. His fellow Carthaginians knew the coward had lost the last chance to break the flow of Roman strength where Scylla & Charybdis guard the narrow straits between Messana and Rhegium on the mainland...
...Kraniche des Ibykus," Ibykus, a Greek poet, is murdered while on his way from Rhegium to the games at Corinth, a swarm of cranes being the only witnesses to the crime. When the body is found the people clamor for revenge and are called together to determine the murderers. The perpetrator of the crime is among those present. Just as he is reminded of his deed by the avenging song of the Furies, the cranes fly overhead. Surprised, the slayer betrays himself by exclaiming to his accomplice, "See there Timotheus; behold the cranes of Ibykus...
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